I have Acronis True Image Home 2011 that I was going to use to clone the C: drive to my external 250gb drive. Will this be an exact working hard drive copy of OS with all my working programs without having to do a clean installation? I have a lot of programs and really don't want to reload. I'm looking to replace the C drive with cloned drive and upgrade it to Win 7 32bit. This way if my programs are not compatable or I don't like Win 7 I can pop in my old drive and be back to where I am now with Vista.
Thanks for your help,
chas638

Re: Re aprtition and move OS

An image reflects exactly the state of your system as it is at the time you take the image - the OS, programs, all settings , all files, etc. When you restore the image, it is like a tiime machine going back to the time when you took the image.

If you have Acronis and are familiar with it, you can use that. if you are not familiar with Acronis, you may be better off to use the free Macrium - it is easier to use.

PS: I am sure you will like Windows7 - it is great. But give it a few days to get used to it. And if you have any questions, visit us on the Windows7 forum.

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